Hi All, I am trying to read group descriptor from disk. I am able to read the superblock structure successfully. But I am not getting successful to get the group descriptor. Here is my code. Please check out what is missing. #include<linux/ext3_fs.h> #include<sys/types.h> #include<sys/stat.h> #include<stdio.h> #include<unistd.h> #include<fcntl.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<string.h> #define block_size 4096 #define boot_block_size 1024 int main() { char *buff = (char *)malloc(block_size); struct ext3_super_block * sblock = (struct ext3_super_block *)malloc(sizeof(struct ext3_super_block)); struct ext3_group_desc * gdesc = (struct ext3_group_desc *)malloc(sizeof(struct ext3_group_desc)); int fd = open("/dev/hda3",O_RDONLY); lseek(fd,boot_block_size,SEEK_CUR); //skip the boot block read(fd,buff,block_size); //read superblock,we read one block(4096 bytes)here memcpy((void *)sblock,(void *)buff,sizeof(struct ext3_super_block));//here I can fill sblock successfully.. //read the next block..assuming this will contain group dsc for this block..i.e. first group descriptor for first block group read(fd,buff,block_size); //read first block. It should contain group description structure. memcpy((void *)gdesc,(void *)buff,sizeof(struct ext3_group_desc)); //try to print some field inside structure.. printf("\nbg_inode_table:%u",gdesc->bg_inode_table); //Bang....It gives me zero. close(fd); return 0; } _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users